How to Download the Latest Version: 1.1.1

[Chibi]

Downloading Steam would be fairly pointless without the ability to move things around - think about it: if your account is hijacked, your games are off access, you can't play offline games without an internet connection, and the GUI is aging. By the way, the first two reasons come from personal experience. Even with all these caveats, Steam is a great program. 

[CooperJ]

You can play offline games in Steam without a Internet connection, you just have to load up the games you wish to play offline while you're still connected, before enabling offline mode. Then, when you're actually offline, the games will load up fine and will not throw you an error message.

Stupid and roundabout, I know. I think Steam needs to download something to the effect of a validation key or some such, which is retained for games that have been loaded during the current instance of the program and stored when offline mode is enabled, so it can still verify the game data. Why Valve don't have Steam do this while it signs in, I don't know. It'd make offline mode less of a PITA.

[Chibi]

Pita bread... mmmm.  That would be a very good solution.

[Alphasoldier]

Chibi, not only was this thread going offtopic (thanks to me), you just made it derail twice, good job. 8D (((keeeding)))
Let's just leave this topic be until someone has another question about the latest version(s).

[Vetehinen]

Okay then, my turn to show my ignorance when it comes to technical problems...  Now I have to bombard all my questions to you at once, please stand it. I also feel like commenting, like in every topic what ever it might concern.

Front page still advices to wait until things are clear and also for the next version 1.1.2 , though I quess it's a bit old info now. My version is 1.0.3,  and I bought it from the Aquarias homepage March-April -o8. So, I PM Alec (if he's not in a hurry with his IA), and it will still work that way? I have seen some screenshots of the new versions, and those features are really what I need to "complete" my gaming experience.

I still play Aquaria at least couple times a week, mostly just listening and travelling from place to place gathering food and stuff. How relaxing game, beautiful music. Even if I still haven't seen the alternative ending; somehow I want to keep something hanging there, waiting for a good moment. I guess I would became sad when the final ending comes, as I noticed how "emotionally  difficult" it was to research Icy Waters. Never seen and experienced a game like this.

So this (kinda) leads to my question;  is newer version compatible with older saves. If wont, I try to "finish" this version and happily start a new game, as it has been a year since I played this first time.

I tried to find the answer, but maybe I was too tired and didn't notice that part. Sorry for that.

So, update and a soundtrack is what I want right now, although it has been long since I heard about the latter one 

[Alphasoldier]

Okay, to the first question, do the saves work with the newer versions?
I think they do, they load, but I did find it awkward after redownloading my older version's 2 hour speedrun that it was put at a certain spot that I didn't remember saving on, I might've just picked the wrong save game file back when I was compiling it however.
Soundtracks self are open source as .OGG files in the Aquaria directory in the newer versions.

Oh and if you wish to speed things up a bit (even if it probably bothers Alec a slight bit) I'd send also a mail with your purchase information to Alec AND Plimus, just to be sure.

[aaron]

Derek: Actually, hold off for the time being until things are cleared up with them.

So, I have an original, original copy of Aquaria, downloaded the day it came out. I never bothered updating it, because when I finally got around to it, I saw this message from Derek. I've dug around the forum, but I can't find any definitive answer as to how to update my copy. Do I e-mail Plimus?

[Nava]

I can't find any definitive answer as to how to update my copy. Do I e-mail Plimus?

Plimus is not really handling this stuff in any efficient way. I recommend emailing Alec with your name and original download reference number, but please note that he goes away tomorrow for two weeks for business, so he may not get the chance to respond promptly...

[calebgray]

NOTE: 1.1.2 is going to be out soon, so you might want to hold off updating until then!

Any news about when this update is happening... I don't want to bother updating until this one, since I figure it should be happening soon enough..?

[Alphasoldier]

I'm not sure, but I think that's only for the Steam users. I have no clue if it's the same for the version that plimus gives out.

[calebgray]

Is the latest available update worth getting? I didn't encounter any bugs when I played through the first time... I would like to play through the game again in widescreen this time though, and I think I read that better WS support was added. Anyone know how the latest right now is? (I'm running XP + NV, so the note about Vista + ATI doesn't pertain to me at all..)

[metalgod]

By coming here today, i saw that the 1.1.1 version is dwlable, but i didn't find a note log or something. So maybe can help me.
What are the big changes (i use 1.0.x version) with the new stuff? Do saves still work?
thanks for sharing the infos.

[Marty]

Hi guys!

I haven't seen a change log of the patch 1.1.1 but there is a promising description in one of the news entries
on the front page: http://www.bit-blot.com/?p=156

"This weekend we’ll release the new Windows version of Aquaria, 1.1.1. This version includes widescreen, graphics and audio enhancements, improved puzzles, a new/awesome map system and more. It even improves on the recently released Mac version - and it will be released at a new price."

If you are planning to play again, I think it is definately worth it, though I'm still at the beginning discovering all the new stuff.
Wide Screen support works very well for me, I'm playing in 1920x1200 (XP + Ati).

Btw., I asked  for the reactivation of my download at plimus and got a positive answer with a link only 5 minutes later  ( support@plimus.com )

Good Luck!

[metalgod]

 
I missed that on the official site, i came directly here. Thx but i still dunno about the saves.

[Marty]

I missed that on the official site, i came directly here. Thx but i still dunno about the saves.

I've just tried to play with my old savegames from the version before 1.1.1 and they work.
So go ahead and have a try